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Tim Harford explains - and sometimes debunks - the numbers and statistics used in political debate, the news and everyday life

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Episodes (1426)

WS More or Less: Volcanoes versus humans

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Jun 3, 20199:05pending

Hay Festival Special

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May 31, 201927:51pending

WS More or Less: Florence Nightingale – recognising the nurse statistician

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May 27, 201910:59pending

Eurovision and fact-checking Naomi Wolf

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May 24, 201924:01pending

Making music out of Money

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May 20, 20199:05pending

Heart deaths, Organised crime and Gender data gaps

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May 17, 201927:57pending

Sex Every Seven Seconds

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May 13, 201915:06pending

Sex, coal, missing people and mice

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May 10, 201927:36pending

Avengers - Should we reverse the snap?

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May 6, 201910:18pending

Nurses, flatmates and cats

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May 3, 201923:45pending

Bernie Sanders and the cost of having a baby

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Apr 29, 20199:32pending

Hottest Easter, Insects, Scottish villages

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Apr 26, 201927:44pending

The economic impact of mega sporting events

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Apr 19, 20198:59pending

Where is Scotland’s highest village?

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Apr 15, 20198:58pending

Rounding up the weed killer cancer conundrum

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Apr 8, 20198:58pending

Chess cheats and the GOAT

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Apr 2, 201910:04pending

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

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Mar 25, 20198:58pending

Is Mansa Musa the richest person of all time?

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Mar 25, 20198:58pending

Day light saving time and heart attacks

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Mar 18, 20198:58pending

The gender gap in tech

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Mar 9, 20199:03pending

Insectageddon

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Mar 4, 201912:20pending

How To Make Your Art Work More Valuable

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Feb 22, 20199:14pending

WS More or Less: When maths mistakes really matter

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Feb 18, 20199:10pending

Climate Change, Victorian Diseases, Alcohol

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Feb 15, 201923:04pending

WS More or Less: From the archives: Groundhogs and Kings

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Feb 12, 201918:35pending

Teen Suicide; Brexit Business Moves; Wood-Burner Pollution

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Feb 8, 201928:29pending

WS More or Less: You have 15,000 likes!

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Feb 4, 20199:11pending

Holocaust Deniers; Venezuelan Hyperinflation; Tinder Likes

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Feb 1, 201928:54pending

WS More or Less: Is Suicide Seasonal?

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Jan 26, 20199:11pending

Domestic Violence, Jobs, Easter Snowfall

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Jan 25, 201923:17pending

WS More or Less: Close Encounters of a Planetary Kind

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Jan 19, 20199:23pending

Intersex Numbers, Fact-Checking Facebook, Jack Bogle

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Jan 18, 201930:09pending

WS More or Less: The Mathematics of Fever

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Jan 12, 201910:55pending

Sugar, Outdoors Play and Planets

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Jan 11, 201928:07pending

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 2

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Jan 4, 20198:58pending

WS More or Less: Numbers of the Year Part 1

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Dec 29, 20188:58pending

Numbers of the Year Part One

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Dec 28, 20188:58pending

WS More or Less: Mission Impossible - Quantifiying Santa

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Dec 22, 20188:58pending

WS More or Less: Dam Lies and Statistics

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Dec 17, 20188:58pending

WS More or Less: Sex and Heart Attacks

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Nov 30, 20188:58pending

WS More or Less: Are 90% of War Fatalities Civilians?

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Nov 23, 201816:19pending

WS More or Less: When’s a Kilogram Not a Kilogram?

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Nov 16, 20189:04pending

WS More or Less: Do Assassinations Work?

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Nov 9, 20188:58pending

WS More or Less: Vaccines - The importance of the herd and social media

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Oct 28, 201811:10pending

WS More or Less: Foreign Aid: Who’s the most generous?

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Oct 19, 20188:58pending

WS More or Less: Paul Romer and William Nordhaus’ Big Ideas

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Oct 12, 20189:04pending

Loneliness, School Funding, Same-Sex Divorce

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Oct 9, 20189:40pending

WS More or Less: Why are Lesbians More Likely to Divorce than Gay Men?

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Oct 7, 20189:19pending

Loneliness; School Funding; Same-Sex Divorce.

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Oct 5, 201820:59pending

WS More of Less: Surviving the Battle of Britain

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Oct 1, 20189:06pending
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